I was reading some articles on BaltimoreRavens.com today and I found one titled "Ravens have to go 4 quarters" by  Mike Duffy. He always does a good job of previewing games for the site. He reminded me of something I was thinking of myself, which is to make sure we firmly grab a lead on the Steeler's this Sunday and hold on to it the best we can.

  During the Monday Night game, penalties such as personal fouls killed our chances of securing a win in the late quarter's. Our last personal foul was in Miami by Antwan Barnes and Harbaugh says in the article that the Ravens have put an "emphasis" on declining these penalties. I can only hope we stay sharp mentaly as a team and avoid these dumb personal foul penalties defensively and offensively for that matter. Besides pressuring him, the key is too wrap up Ben and tackle him to the ground as Jarret Johnson makes an adamant point of.

  His approach on defense is too think he's going against a running back from a strength standpoint and I agree with him entirely. We have seen this guy avoid defender's too make crucial play's for his team and hurt the defense in the process numerous times despite the pressure they send at him. Just look what Ben did too the Cowboy's after he threw for a long conversion and couldn't be tackled. He looked more like a "bigfoot" pappa Favre than Romo trying his best Favre impersenation I believe, with a misguided left hand toss up towards the end zone, which failed horribly, LoL. Here's an interesting fact from the article.  Although, Big Ben has led 16 career comebacks in the 4th quarter and 4 this year, the Ravens have only allowed 11.4 points too the Steelers in their last five meetings at Baltimore.

 One successful key too stopping Ben you all can attribute too is the noise factor in Baltimore this Sunday! Harbaugh has called M&T the "loudest" in the leauge, if there isn't a louder one he knows of. The "loudest" in the leauge works for me. Since I was fired from my lousy job this week and can go back too being a lazy bum again, I'll thankfully be watching the game in my cozy basement with my Raven's slippers on. The only way too spend an NFL Sunday!!! Who's all braving the weather too be at the game this week? If your going, do me a favor and make those Steeler fan's regret they even showed up!!! Thanks.

your pal, purpleonblack

Read here: http://www.baltimoreravens.com/News/Articles/2008/12/Notes-_Ravens_Have_to_Go_4_Quarters.aspx